On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, survivors of Auschwitz-Birkenau are commemorating the liberation of the Nazi German death camp where some 1.1 million people were killed.
The former concentration and extermination camp is located in the town of Oświęcim in southern Poland, which during World War II was under the occupation of German forces and became a place of systematic murder of Jews, Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, Roma and others targeted for elimination by Adolf Hitler and his henchmen.
Yet it lies only 300 kilometers from Ukraine, where Russian aggression is creating unthinkable death and destruction — a conflict on the minds of many of those paying tribute to the victims of eight decades ago. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy marked the event with a post on his official Telegram feed that alluded to his own country's situation."Indifference and hatred are always capable of creating evil together only. That is why it is so important that everyone who values life should show determination when it comes to saving those whom hatred seeks to destroy."
The Germans established Auschwitz in 1940 for Polish prisoners; later they expanded the complex, building death chambers and crematoria where Jews from across Europe were brought by train to be murdered.
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